The flower of Old England was laid in cold clay, Whilst the royal King Henrie came weeping

away.

THE MUKDER OF THE KING OF SCOTS.

Reliques of Ancient English Poetry, ii. 210.

" The catastrophe of Henry Stewart, Lord Darn-ley, the uniortunate husband of Mary Queen of Scots, is the subject of this ballad. It is here related in that partial imperfect manner, in which such an event would naturally strike the subjects of another king­dom, of which he was a native. Henry appears to have been a vain, capricious, worthless young man,